The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1766 or 1766?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1766?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1766| = ?
The absolute value of 1766 is the distance between 1766 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1766:
Since the distance between 1766 and 0 on a number line is 1766, we get the answer as follows:
|1766| = 1766
Note that the absolute value of 1766 can also be written as abs(1766) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1767
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